Patterson v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
183 F.2d 327 · 1950
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently January 2017 · most notably Mullican v. United States (1958), Hutchison v. United States (1971)
11 federal appellate · 16 state decisions — followed in 13 states
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Pagliaro v. Cox
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Criminal prosecution for the crime of escape is not prohibited under the double jeopardy clause of the fifth amendment because a convict guilty thereof has upon his recapture been subjected to discipline by the prison authorities for the violation of prison discipline involved.” Patterson v. United States, 183 F.2d 327 (4th Cir. 1950) cert. denied, 340 U.S. 893 , 71 S.Ct. 200 , 95 L.Ed. 647 .”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.